Transcript CORE Lecture Outline

Prof. Juan Bruce-Novoa
Dept. Spanish & Portuguese
México in Search of Itself
1810-21 Independence
1829 Spanish Invasion
1824-35 Political Chaos, i.e. 16
Presidents
1836 Texas Rebellion
1846-48 U.S. Invasion:
Territory reduced 50%
1856-63 War of Reform
1863-7 French Invasion
& Imposed Empire
1876-1910 Pax Porfiriana
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Mexican
National Character
National Style
National Production
National
Consumption
6. Self-Representation
1.
2.
3.
4.
Spanish . . . US
Colonial Character
International Style
Foreign Marketing
Modernization
Models of Modernity
5. Foreign Production
6. Misrepresentation
CIVIL
RELIGION:
History as
progress
towards ideal
fusion:
Best of
European &
Indian:
Mestizo
Nation,
the “natural”
Logic of
Evolution.
USEABLE
INDIAN
PAST
Aztec: ideal
civilization
lacking only
Christianity.
Surpassed
through
laws of
“natural”
Logic of
Evolution.
Porfirian
Mexican Evolutionary Logic
1. Elite Native Culture:
Aztec Empire
2. Elite European:
Greco-Roman/
Spanish
3. Enlightened Liberal,
Cosmopolitan
Positivism
Heroic Protagonists
1. Cuauhtémoc: native
nobility
2. Hidalgo:
Independence
3. Juárez: Liberty
4. Díaz: Peace &
Progress
WORLD FAIRISM
International Stages for Performing
Nationalism & Modernity
New Orleans 1884
Paris 1900
Cuauhtémoc
Staging Local Modernity:
URBANISM & CITY PLANNING
1. Totalizing Jesuit theory of planned environment
2. A nation’s historical & moral qualities expressed
in their products, especially architecture.
3. Epitome of civilized character  organization of
social space: the city.
4. Urbanization to remedy inherited chaos.
5. City Planning of harmonious future.
Owen
Buckingham
Pemberton
Smith
Victorian Gothic Revival
Charles Barry &Augustus Welby Pugin. 1840-60.
John Ruskin: The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849)
Moral superiority of Gothic; nostalgia for ideal Christian past
Washington D.C.
Georges-Eugène, Baron Haussmann
Paris Urbanization, 1853-1870
Replace Medieval chaos with order.
Facilitate movement & new sense of
space and how to experience it.
a. Wide streets: boulevards
b. Monumental buildings at key sites
c. New Technologies
d. Sense of total organization = social
order as product spacial orientation
Mexico City:
th
19
1793
1876
1892
1901
1909
Century
Palacio de Minería
1813
Classic
Vs
Gothic?
Parisian Urban
U.S. Urban
“El Caballito”: Site of Memory
Monument to Carlos IV (1796-1803)
1855
1891
1870
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Residence in Colonial Roma 1890s
1904: Official Government Architectural Policy of Eclecticism:
Meet Universal Structural needs with Unlimited Exterior Choice;
Architect as Civil Servant to administer to the Common Good
Architectural Styles
Classical
Building Construction
Non-Classical
Years
Years
School of
Mines
1813
Secretariat
of
Communications
and
Public Works
1910
Central de Correos 1910
Cámara de Diputados, 1910
Monument to
Cuauhtémoc 1887
P
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S
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O
De
la
R
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F
O
R
M
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PARIS
1840
Angel of Independence 1910
1908
Boulevard
As
Museum of
National
History
Family as National Allegory:
Building a Future on Solid Present
Celebrated in 1910 Independence Centenary
1910 Centenary of Mexican Independence
1910
La
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Herrán´s
Mexican
Family
Azuela´s
Family in
Underdogs